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We were all very proud of the participants in the Health & Wellbeing Group.  Thank you for attending and Well Done on achieving your certificate.

Beautiful picture of our Chair receiving her award.  Accompanied by one of our Family Support Workers : Sharon Huddart.

We are so very proud of our founder member and Chair Maddy Vaz for receiving an award from The High Sheriff of Merseyside in recognition of her great and valuable service to the community.

Well done Maddy, you so deserve this award.

Sanctuary was successful in 2015, with funding from Liverpool Community Fund, for a gardening project. We were not able to start this project until we had moved into our new premises.   This has been ongoing since January 2016 and we have had so many of our service users and volunteers who have dedicated their time and put their heart and soul into making the garden what it is today, “Special”.

Our volunteers have given so much time to this project.  It has changed from a dark and miserable place to a haven of flowers and sanctuary. Two of our service users who are carpenters worked on making the stairways safe with fences and gates.  They screwed batons to the walls for the climbing plants to grow and one of them have made us 4 large planters.  Plants have been purchased, some   donated by our Kinship Carers.  Two of our Family Members who lost their son recently spent the day planting.  We will be holding a celebration day to say Thank You to all our volunteers and service users who donated plants, chairs, etc.  Carillion have been invited to this day.

 On the 2nd October 2015 we launched our new project “Supporting and Stabilizing Lives”.  This was attended by around 50 people, some from other organisations, funders past and present, local councillors including Luciana Berger, Louise Ellman, the local media and last but not least our service users.  Our Chair opened the launch and spoke about the beginning of Sanctuary and how we have progressed through the years up until the present day.  She then introduced the Project Co-ordinator.  The Project Co-ordinator introduced the new staff, and talked about their roles within the project.  Two of our service users gave Testimonies about the help they had received from Sanctuary.  Two of our carers went on to give a performance around role-play, one being the mother of a user who hadn’t sought help.  The day was a great success ending with an enjoyable lunch and some holistic therapies.

We are pleased to announce that a grandchild of one of our kinship carers’: Mica Grant won a Young Achievers Award from Steve Biko Housing Association.  We are so proud of her and all the young winners.  So proud.